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Article: Banking on a 'velvet revolution'.
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- Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2009
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Byline: Abdel Bari Atwan, Special to Gulf News
The G8 conference has given the Iran government until the end of September to agree to negotiations limiting its nuclear capacity; simultaneously the protests in favour of the defeated presidential candidate Mir Hussain Mousavi have started again in Tehran.
It is clear that the US administration is banking on a 'velvet revolution' in Iran to undermine the regime from within and it is not beyond the realm of possibility that the CIA is involved in fomenting one.
The Iranian demonstrations have been heavily featured in the Western media. Other Middle Eastern elections and protests have rarely been of ...